QUOTE/UNQUOTE "We have lost a true Olympic hero and inspirational human being. Jack Shea '34 lived the Olympic ideal " USOC CEO LLOYD WARD ON THE JANUARY DEATH OF SHEA, A 1932 GOLD MEDALIST IN SPEED SKATING
Astros catcher Brad Ausmus '91 won a Gold Glove as the top defensive catcher in the National League last season. Some felt he deserved more. "In the aftermath of September11, the Houston catcher said something that showed he also deserves a gold something for his intellect," wrote the HoustonChronicle's Dale Robertson in November. The columnist was referring to the veteran catcher's reply when asked about what might be in store for baseball during the offseason: "A bunch of rich guys arguing about money after what the country has been through would be pretty foolish."...Navy Rear Admiral John Eisold '68, DMS'76,who took over as the Capitol Hill chief physician in 1995, has been in the spotlight since last fall. 'Although he's been Congress's chief doctor for nearly six years, the 57 year-old Eisold has until now remained quietly invisible, content to provide needed health care to the sprawling congressional community from a little clinic beneath the Rotunda," reported RollCall in October. All that changed after the anthrax attack on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschles office. "If we screen them, we treat them" Eisold said at an October press conference as more than 3,000 staffers, lawmakers, reporters and visitors lined up for nasal swabs and packets of the antibiotic Cipro... .Camp director MattMontagne '73 is racing to round up enough funds to replace the Teton Valley Ranch Camp in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the setting for the Western classic Shane and "one of Americas most celebrated summer youth programs for the past 63 years," according to the Denver Post. Soaring property values and pending inheritance taxes are forcing the camp's owners to put the 151-acre ranch on the block for $50 million, The Wall Street Journal reported in October. Montagne, who attended the camp at age 10 and has worked as director for 23 years, can't afford to buy it but has turned to camp alumni to help raise $13 million to buy another site and relocate the summer camp. His Ready to Ride Campaign had raised $5 million by January....Teacher and coach Douglas Tyson '81 has spent more than a decade running drills, organizing squads for scrimmages and building his team into a national powerhouse—on the academic quiz-bowl circuit. The Wall Street Journal reported that last year he led his team from Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington, D.C., to victory at the Panasonic Academic Challenge, the Super Bowl of scholastic quizzes. Quite a season for the students from inner-city Banneker. "Mr. Tyson, himself African American, uses the [extracurricular activity] to expand his students' limited curriculum and expose them to subjects like existentialism and expressionism," reported the Journal. "Another goal is to teach black students that they can compete, in school and in life" ...News day reported that on election night one of the first people New York City Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg thanked for helping him on the road to City Hall was girlfriend Diana Taylor '77. Dubbed "Bloomy s Gal" by the New York Post, Taylor is chief financial officer for the Long Island Power Authority, where she oversees yearly revenues of about $2 billion and a debt of more than $7 billion. News day referred to a previous interview with Taylor in which she said Dartmouth taught her to survive in a man's world. "Just work hard," she reportedly told the paper in 1990. "Don't make waves, don't complain and gradually things change. [The men] don't even realize what's happening."...Heather Richmond '86 has been having great hair days. As assistant wig supervisor for the current Broadway smash The Producers, she recently met actor (and show creator) Mel Brooks. It's the latest star sighting for Richmond, who has also worked with Julie Andrews, Gene Wilder and, her favorite, Mister Rogers (Fred Rogers '50) ....For other alums, the stage is the thing. Playwright and The West Wing writer Peter Parnell '74 opened his newest work, Q.E.D., starring Alan Alda, at New York's Lincoln Center last November. The play is based on the life of physicist Richard Feynman, whose work on quantum electrodynamics won him a Nobel Prize. In a review in TheNew York Times, Parnell explained his interest in the plays scientific themes:'" 'Are we going to achieve a grand unified theory,' he said, citing the quest to reduce all physics to an equation suitable for a T-shirt. 'Higher physics becomes a kind of philosophy,' he said, explaining that even if the problems are not solvable, they might be grasp-able.'".. .Over on the West Coast, roommates Jeff Wadlow '98 and Eyal Podell '97 are building their Hollywood careers. Eyal read the radar screens alongside Gene Hackman in the fall flick Behind Enemy Lines,while Jeff popped up in last summer's Pearl Harbor and an episode of the UPN television series Roswell. Most of Wadlow's time has been occupied with his film The Tower of Babble, begun as a film school thesis. Wadlow wrote, directed and acted in the short feature, which won best short film honors at the Alaska Film Festival last December... .Two alumni have collaborated to help build the "home of the future" in a Vermont farmhouse for the syndicated television show Bob Vila's Home 4gain.Atraditional farmhouse was builtand equipped with an array of high-tech gizmos—over the course of 13 episodes that aired last fall. J. Michael Maynard '71, an owner in the Quechee (Vermont) Lakes Recreational Community, where the house was built, joined forces with Home Again producer Sarah (Beasley) Monzon '89. "I was into film production at Dartmouth, and this was a good chance to reconnect to a world that I left 20 years ago," says Maynard. Find details at www.bobvila.com/BVTV/HomeAgain/Seasons/QuecheeLakes.html....If anyone keeps Pittsburgh moving, it's orthopedic surgeon FreddieFu '74, the force behind the $80 million University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Performance Complex dubbed "Freddies building," according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But his acres of ergometers, treadmills, spin bikes and free-weights—plus an indoor, full-size football field—offer more than fun and games. The complex also houses a research center focused on robotic surgery, stem cell tissue regeneration, concussion prevention and human motion—such as how to get a better golf swing (golfer Greg Norman lent his arm to that study). "Among the 50,000 clients the complex has served in the year since it opened in fall 2000 are hundreds of professional athletes, including players for the Pirates, Steelers and Penguins, plus five-time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain and ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov," reports the Post-Gazette. Fu,who logs 100 miles per week cycling to work and racing, is trying to get Pittsburgh in shape to attract a new generation of movers and shakers....Comedian and author Monteria Ivey '82 died December 13 of diabetic shock. Ivey and longtime creative partner Stephan Dweck '82 had been co-hosting the New York City radio show SportsFunk, which emerged from regular appearances that the two had made on Don Imus's radio show, and had recently finished their latest book, The Big Bookof Black Humor. Ivey and Dweck wrote often about African-American humor, with their Snaps series and two books of pickup lines, You're So Fine I'd Drink a Tub ofYour Bathwater and Baby, All Those Curves.And Me With No Brakes. The pair first met growing up in a housing project in West Harlem. As The New York Times reported in its obituary on Ivey: "Mr. Ivey and Mr. Dweck went to Dartmouth College together; there Mr. Ivey honed his idiosyncratic personality." Ivey is survived by his mother, two sisters and two brothers.
Matt Montagen '73
Heather Richmond '86
QUOTE/UNOUOTE "I'm going to inject energy into the-party. I'll be like a shot in the arm. I will bring people back who are turned, off by politics." DEMOCRAT ROBERT REICH '68, ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY FOR MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR
Contributors: Davida Dinerman '86, StellaLee '03, Julie Sloane '99 and Simone Swink '98
